Memorial services were held today in synagogues throughout Israel for victims of the Nazi holocaust whose day of death is unknown. The Israeli rabbinate had fixed today, the tenth of Tevet, as a general Kaddish day for such victims of Nazism.
At the Yad Vashem, the Institute for the Remembrance of the Holocaust, ashes taken in 1947 from the Treblinka death camp in Poland were brought for burial. They were turned over to the Yad Vashem by Prof. Jacob Shenkman, who was a member of a Jewish vengeance squad in postwar Europe that hunted down Nazi war criminals. The rites were attended by survivors of the holocaust and by public figures, Including Development Minister Moshe Kol. An eternal light was kindled in the Memorial Hall, where the ashes were deposited. The number of Jews murdered by the Nazis at Treblinka is believed to have been about 800,000.
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